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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 27 - April 2
It's always good to return to the Twin Cities and one of the nation's most vibrant (and accessible) jazz scenes. And there's lots for all local jazz fans to enjoy in the coming week—some of our favorite veterans (and youngest stars) on stages from The Nicollet and Jazz Central across the river to the Black Dog ...
Bassist/Composer Mimi Jones Announces New Tour Dates
For bassist/composer Mimi Jones, the release one year ago of her second CD Balance accomplished several goals. It tested her mettle as a businesswoman, as the CD was released on the Hot Tone Music label she’d founded in 2009. It highlighted her propensity for collaboration and support of other indie jazz musicians, particularly women, as Hot ...
Los Angeles Based Sun Soul Orchestra Prepares To Release Their Long Awaited Full-length CD Debut "What Matters Most" Worldwide On April 28th, 2015
Los Angeles, CA - Sun Soul Orchestra is an inspired project that features a rotating collection of artists performing original music and covers arranged by Stevo Théard and Ginger Murphy. Their debut album, What Matters Most has been a labor of love over the past 5 years and finally releases worldwide, physically and digitally on April ...
“Traveler” Visits Barnes & Noble, Bossa Novas Onto Billboard Chart
World beat purveyor Lawson Rollins boosted by in-store play for his newly released album; the virtuoso guitarist to be profiled in Guitar Player magazine. San Francisco, CA: The guitar-guided world music excursions that you hear this month in Barnes & Noble stores throughout the United States come from the recently released Traveler, the critically-hailed fifth album ...
Kirk Knuffke: Arms & Hands
by Mark Corroto
Sometime, watch children as they eat the M&Ms. They will separate the colors into several piles--green, red, brown, yellow, orange, and blue. It's not that each color tastes different, except for maybe blue--I don't remember ever seeing that color before. Nonetheless, they go about savoring each color batch as an independent experience. Those little candies come ...
Ryan Truesdell Gil Evans Project: Lines of Color
by Dan McClenaghan
The biggest ribbons in composer/arranger Gil Evans' (1912-1988) resume are three groundbreaking Columbia Records albums he recorded with trumpeter Miles Davis: Miles Ahead (1958); Porgy and Bess (1959); and Sketches of Spain (1960). These were orchestral jazz of the finest caliber, recorded a decade after Evans' earlier work with Davis on the seminal Capitol Records set ...
Dead Combo & Camane at New Jersey Performing Arts Center
by Ernest Barteldes
Dead Combo + Camané New Jersey Performing Arts Center Newark, NJ March 15, 2015 On their NJPAC debut, the Lisbon-based duo formed by Tó Trips and Pedro V. Gonçalves walked silently onto the stage as a short video introduction was played. They immediately launched into “Povo Que Cais ...
Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience
A book by Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Louie Bellson, Lennie Tristano, Tony Bennett, Buddy DeFranco, Flip Phillips, and Joe Lovano: These are just some of the hundreds of musicians of Italian descent whose talents have enriched jazz. Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica is more than just a book about ...
Jazz this week: Matthew Shipp & Michael Bisio, Shades of Jade, T. Oliver Reid, Koplant No, Essentially Ellington Festival, and more
Check out more events at Jazz Near You: St. Louis. It's another busy weekend of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with a number of noteworthy shows from both touring and local performers, including a new variation on the usual booking formulas from Jazz St. Louis, as Jazz at the Bistro will for the ...
Michael Mull Octet Releases Source Code On Orenda Records
Saxophonist and Composer Michael Mull Digs Deep for the Source on his debut Octet album, Source Code! Michael Mull is a saxophonist and composer of surprise breadth and depth and to say his music is chameleonic is an understatement. On Source Code, the debut album of his flagship ensemble, the Michael Mull Octet, he shows just ...
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